Day: April 24, 2008

The Naked Liturgist

The redoubtable Bosco Peters has launched a new feature on his blog that deserves attention for both its name and its flinty sense of humor.

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The Good Communicator

Doesn’t the Presiding Bishop remind you of Ronald Reagan? Not, obviously, in her politics, but in her ability to work through the media to amplify her message. Here are a collection of recent articles.

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Seabury gives faculty notice, cuts nine staff jobs

“Our primary work right now is caring for the people in the Seabury community whose lives are being dramatically disrupted,” Dean Gary Hall said. “While we need to look to what Seabury might become in the future, we have focused almost all of our energies on the immediate concerns facing those around us.”

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Exploring a shameful legacy

Christ Church in Philadelphia is in the midst of a public examination of its slave-holding past, and plans “regular dramatic enactments of slaves and slaveholders, Founding Fathers and chattel, and slave-owning abolitionists.” The presentations are scheduled to begin May 1.

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Seeking a way forward in Zimbabwe

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have issued a joint statement this morning concerning the deteriorating situation of ordinary people in Zimbabwe calling for “a civil society movement that both gives voice to those who demand an end to the mayhem that grows out of injustice, poverty, exclusion and violence.”

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Selective schism?

The Kenyan and Rwandan archbishops each support breakaway congregations in the United States. Neither will take Communion with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church. Yet, there they were at Archbishop Deng Bul’s consecration with representatives of the Episcopal Church. This is all to the good, but it raises certain questions.

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Against capital punishment

My ethical problem with justifying the execution of one individual to deter other persons from committing crimes is that this reduces the one executed to a means to an end, thereby denying that person’s inherent dignity and worth as a child of God. Christians should never view a person as simply an instrument for achieving a goal, no matter how laudable the goal.

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Practical mysticism

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man’s life; and until he has realized it he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.

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Commemorating Thurgood Marshall

In 2006, the Diocese of Washington asked the General Convention to include Thurgood Marshall in the Episcopal Church’s book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts. The request was referred to a church commission, but those who support Marshall’s cause can hold a Eucharist in his honor next month, perhaps on May 17, the anniversary of his victory in Brown. v. Board of Education.

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